I'm sure you've all heard that your attitude towards something will define not only whether or not you enjoy it, but also the outcome itself. Right? Right.
Some of you know me well, some not so much, some not at all. As much as I hate to admit this (though a lot of you already know it), I can be very negative when it comes to doing things I don't want to do. I also complain a lot, as my wonderful girlfriend Ali tells me way too often.
The effect of this is obvious when it comes to doing those things I don't want to do. How? I consistently go into these situations with a bad attitude and outlook, and thus no matter how good it could turn out to be, it never will, because I'm expecting it to be bad and all I do is complain about it, thus making me automatically see everything in a bad light. Because of this, I always come out of it having had a bad experience. This of course means that next time I will be thinking along the same lines. On and on this vicious cycle goes, like a sucking vortex, a bottomless pit.
Needless to say, things could be better. A lot better.
Let's take school, for example. I neither like nor enjoy three out of my five subjects. Crunching the numbers I find that about 43% of time at school is spent in subjects I strongly dislike. That's purely inside the 6 periods a day, 5 days a week, spent at school. Dump homework on top of that, and you get about 5-6 hours of home time down the drain on boredom, too. Add in the assignments and you find that in excess of 100 hours throughout the year will be spent on major home assignments from just those three detestable subjects.
That's a lot of boredom.
So I'm setting myself a challenge. I'm going to test out the whole "attitude effecting...stuff" saying and see what happens. Watch this space.
From tomorrow morning onwards I'm going to try my hardest to approach each and every subject and period from a different perspective. Throw out the negativity and pessimism and look at things in a new light. No more--or, at least, less--complaints. This won't just apply to school, I'll try and do it for everything. All going well, things should start looking a lot better.
So, here I go. Off on what could be a very difficult journey.
Starting tomorrow morning with double Physics.
2 comments:
Go for gold 'B Man' it does work, just don't be like the YES movie where he says yes to everything,,,,,,
p.s..... Unless it's u no who, But I'd like to c usay NO to the Twilight saga this week.that I would pay too see
Haha thanks. :P And yeah nah that doesn't mean I'm going to say yes to everything. :P I'm just such a busy person!
And I value my life. :P
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